Please, do NOT force your toddler to hold the pencil the way a school child does, with 3 fingers on the pencil â you may do more harm than good. It is very hard to âunlearnâ a poor pencil grip later in life! Each stage of holding a pencil or crayon is dependent on how âsteadyâ the shoulder and arm muscles are.
In the equation of a straight line (when the equation is written as  y = mx + b ), the slope is the number  m  that is multiplied on the x, and  b  is the y-intercept, where the line crosses the y-axis.
A slope is the line or the change of y over x in an equation. A positive is when the division is positive and so the graph will have a line that is increasing from left to right. Then the negative slope is when the answer is negative, or the line id decreasing from left to right. icebookworm Â· 8 years ago. Thumbs up.